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J. H. ESTILL,
Savannah. Ga.
Til
j- da \ s THAT A RK.NO .HOItE.
. I know not what they mean,
Irpth of some divine despair
and gather in the eyes,
• happy autumn fields
the days that are no more.
in glittering on a sail
;nds up from the under
*h reddens over one
ne love below the verge;
■ uays that are no more.
as in dark summer dawns
talf awakened birds
unto dying eyes
ly grows a glimmering
.the days that are no more.
d kiss* s after death,
by hopeless fancy feign'd
others: deep as love—
:m1 wild with all regret:
ie days that are no more.
—Alfred Teiuiyson.
•oiiiia A flairs.
,1. ilarn, late of the Milledge-
Warreuton Clipper, Cincin-
>:i K'•ruing Ledger ami Atlanta
is assumed an editorial posi-
inesvillc Bugle. Mr. Ham is a
•u.ihst of considerable and
Augu
Italian desperado of
enced to State prison for
It on his employer, re-
:ur. We learn from the
not touch food from
last until Friday night,
.*d to take a little supper
hat his case should be
ernor. Since then he has
fasted. Says the News:
lment, for he does not
;ment, work, or docs he
jr torture, lie thinks he
r trial, and said that he
:wenty years if he had a
not understand United
and it is certain that
s I’iomonti.”
fxjrnph thinks the discus-
“Who will be our next
dly premature. It say3 :
*ity for all this discus-
e a good Governor, with
l to run of his term. We
erous and happy. Oar
‘iter, the interest on our
v'er lower, and, outside of
g whaugers, to whom the
of our affairs are worm-
is serene and quiet in our
)’by not let it remain ?”
ipson, a prominent mill
nee, Rhode Island, is in
r the factories and water
reported that he has been
ispection by eastern 6p*n-
eeomiug acquainted with
lered by the South for
Mae.
nounted tramps have en-
village of Cross Keys, near
travel in true Gypsey style,
ter around the camps doing
the women go into the city
•ions oy any means that
They are not Gypsies, how-
frotn Me con having gone
nd have their fortunes told
formed that “they were not
been secured as a regular
ic Cartersville Express.
* JuyisUr saye: “This whole
1 with measles.”
>n Enterprise: “Our stock
ife of our town at present.
<;s and kinds of mules, aud
any man who can ‘fix up’
price seems to range from
.r up to $115 each.”
'.V News: “We heard of a
sharpness the other day that
thing we have before known
. -\ young man named Odom
iis side of the river to Colum-
reported to a merchant there
aitt Roberts, son of Mr. D. M.
been thrown from a buggy
few hours before, and that he
H*eu sent for a suit of clothes
try him, to be charged to the
•. D. M. Roberts. The clothes
;d, and it is supposed. Mr.
wearing them, as he im-
for parts unknown; and Mr.
■rts is still in hi* usual health,
ie come up with Odom will
ke him suffer for wearing off
its of a model poor farm. Ac-
■ News “it is in good condition,
■1,000 pounds of bacon, 130 gal-
«, 175 bushels of corn, 35 husb
and 100 bushels of potatoes,
l' 1 acres are sowed iu wheat
n re are on it thirty or forty
ix head of cattle all in
>n. Four hundred young fruit
>. en set out, the houses aud
good repair, and the lands well
a crop the present year. The
Jhrce whites and two blacks,
1 lor. The Superintendent is a
»gf*r, and the two hands in his
aithfully performing their du-
le Democrat: “Judge B. F.
the most successful and intel-
of our county, hands us the
nula for composting a home-
r . which the Judge claims is
’ of the standard commercial
market, and cheap, because
ng except a little labor. The
on of fertilizer is as fol-
ousaud pounds of rich loam
d from the fence corners, or
or surface dirt from
and fifteen bushels of
put into the stable, or stall,
. cover over with a sufficient
tves or straw to prevent the
anting muddy or dirty. Let
twenty or thirty days, when
in a pen, and another supply
•■•i.-. By this method Judge
n a ton of fertilizer for each
sin be made, equal to the best
•■•! In the market, which is
the same way, and in the
l*s as guano. All who know
know that he has succeeded
m that he is no castle builder,
arrners will give this manure
The
| the subject of the “inland route,” the
' 'ttiGioii says: “ Nature has near-
[tmued Georgia with a ship canal along
i ‘ ' • ' —a canal that connects Sa-
wirh Jacksonville, passing by sev-
• : - .ii g towns, and by a great many
here should be flourishing
r* 1 !,e distance from Savannah to
;; Jl ;ville Lv this natural canal is two
• I ami sixty-three miles. There are
! iauf' in t his great stretch where
fi e not Ldly completed the work,
gfi ,- t . li;e . 5e * s found at Romney Marsh,
'••y. rty miles from Savannah, and tho
i ; >r, j , Ul i t "-' mars ^ le8 lying between Amelia
fu J anJ l ^ e main line below Femandina.
e two marshes could be dredged out
t considerable cost, aud the govern-
doll'.^ do A few thousands of
3 ex P eD ded would afford two
k 1C ^ ^tates a highway that would
danv " ,“arigable, and yet be free of the
a Dlar* i ocean navigation. There is not
tiv^ip 0 1,1 11 t ^ e ccu ntry where a compara-
afip u If Ema nmount of money could be so
Gnr!S? geouslv . expended by the General
Ila ? ra v 1 ?^ as t-ke ^' vo marshes we have
tivA« # on ^ g bould the Represeuta-
ter l ^ e two Stat es immediately in-
hut In, .v Vocate BUch an appropriation,
to fir I "Present those who have to go
that ! m6inc : ss with Florida should insist
removal tw ^i?^ 8tacles in tlie inla ud route be
removed without further delay.”
ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
Says the Talbotton Standard : “Miss Jen
nie Pritchard, an enterprising youDg lady
from Harris county, was in Talbotton a
few days ago, when she sold to one of our
merchants a quarter of a pound of excel
lent pure white silk, which she had spun
and prepared for use with her own hands.
She is raising silk on a small scale, having
raised her own silk worms and trees. Silk
culture in this country is not an irapossi-
bihty by any means, and the efforts of
Miss Pritchard clearly demonstrate that
fact. Her example is quite laudable, and
we hope to see it followed extensively.”
Florida A flairs.
A correspondent writes us from Micanopy,
Fla., detailing a shocking accident which
happened in that place to a Mr. James Gar
ner, formerly of Danbury, Stokes county,
N. C. He was in the village and while walk
ing about the town went into a store where
a young man was packing up goods in gum
camphor. He ate a little of the camphor,
and remarking that he liked it, helped him
self to a piece about the size of a hen’s egg
and ate that. He then retired to the resi
dence of Dr. Marshall, where he was stay
ing, and went to bed. During the night the
doctor heard him groaning and went to see
him, but not finding him very sick, thought
he was only suffering with Indigestion. A
little while after he was heard to vomit, but
soon the vomiting ceased and it was sup
posed he felt better an-1 had retired to bed.
The next morning he was found stretched
on the floor before the fire, stone dead, with
his face and back shockingly burned. It is
supposed he was overcome while vomiting
aud fell in the fire, and was too weak to re
lease himself. All these facts were elicited
at the inquest. His body was decently in
terred by Dr. Marshall. It is believed the
unfortunate man’s father still live3 at Dan
bury, N. C.
Dr. Harris, of Orange Lake, offers a gold
medal to be shot for at the State Fair in
Gainesville. The contest is to be with shot
guns, under the Bogardus rules, and the
wiuner is to wear it until the next State
Fair, when he is again to offer it for compe
tition.
The house of Mr. Otto Goldstriker, in
Pensacola, was almost wholly destroyed by
fire on Tuesday morning of last week. His
loss, however, was pretty well covered by
insurance.
The proposed impeachment of Robert B.
Archibald, Judge of the Fourth Judicial
district of Florida, is on account of charges
against him in connection with the holding
of a late term of court in Clay county, as
well as many acts of corruption and injus
tice in a case in which one Harney Richard
was on trial for murder; also, conduct un
becoming a Judge, and corrupting in its
tendency, in the appointment of masters in
chancery aud other subordinate officers un
der his jurisdiction. The charges are now
being investigated by a legislative committee.
The Quincy Herald makes a note ou’t that
more horses and mules have been purchased
in Gadsden county during the past year
than any j*ear since the war, aud there now
is scarcely a farmer in the county, white or
black, who is not the possesser <yf a plow
team. It says: “This goes to show that
the farmers are gaining strength year by
year, and will soon be independent. We
arc glad to see this, for on the farmer de
pends the prosperity of the country.”
A lot of tramps were arrested in Pensa
cola last week. They all said they were
anxious for work, and would cheerfully
labor if they only had a chance. The chance
was afforded them on the chain gang of that
city.
A new Industry has opened up in South
Florida, that of killing alligators, boiling all
the skins from their heads, and fixing up
the latter as curiosities for Northern tour
ists to take home with them.
Says the St. Augustine Press: “The cost
of living.in St. Augustine is decidedly
cheap. A man and family can live here for
oue-half of what it costs at the North, and
if he is deficient in brains, can live on fish,
and do so for five cents a day—oy»ters aud
clams thrown in. A friend at our elbow
thinks we have put the cost too high, lie
says five cents’ worth of fish would last
three days. We think he is right, and stand
corrected.”
Palatka Herald: “After the arrival of Gen.
Sherman iu this city on Thursday, he was
interviewed. One of our colored men vis
ited him in the Larkin House parlor, aud
extending his haud opened tircthusly: ‘How
do yo’ do. General ?’ ‘How are you; how
are you ? Where did I first have the pleas
ure of your acquaintance?’ replied the Gen
eral, shaking hands. ‘O, I was wid yo’ down
dar at Shiloh ! I reckon yo’ must hab seed
me, for I was dar.’ ‘Who was your officer
and what regiment were you iu ?’
‘Well, now, I don’t zac’ly ’member dat,
but I was dar. an’ was wid yo’ up at Colurn-
by, Souf Kaliny, too.’ And then the sable
visitor interrogated. ‘By de way, Gen’ral,
whar’s Gen’ral Grant ?’ ‘Ah, he is in Egypt,
and is about to visit Eden!’ was the reply.
‘Haw, haw, haw! Dat’s too good, too good;
but look here, Gen’ral Grant's a moughty
smart man, an’ we gemmen of de Souf
would like to hab him for de three term,
but if he gwine to Edum he had better stay
dar, for he mought nebber git de chance
agin. Haw, haw, h-a-w.’ After which there
was hand shaking and the ‘culled brudder’
bowed himself out.”
Pensacola Gazette: “Len. LeBaron and
E. Gale Quina, the scientific experts of the
Pensacola Telegraph Company, have con
structed a microphone which is a success as
a magnifier of sound, as approved by inter
esting experiments. Sounds inaudible to
the ‘naked ear’ are developed by the u a e of
the little instrument, and the footfall of a fly
is somewhat as the tramp of a mule, far, far
away ; and the probability is that if the mule
was very near the instrument, the tympa
num of the ears, and things generally,would
be smashed by the magnified roar of
sounds.”
South Florida Journal: “Mr. James E.
Richardson, of Wilmington, Ohio,who is an
enthusiast over relics of the mound builders
age, is searching in the mounds of this vi
cinity at present. The first of the week we
accompanied him on one of his excursions,
and opened one of the mounds at the head
of Lake Monroe, lying between the Ginn
and Cloud groves. Innumerable skeletons
and bones were found, aud several relics, in
the shape of broken pottery, arrow heads
and beads. Mr. R. thinks this a rich held
for research, and will probably open some
of the other mounds near here.”
The Fernandina Mirror is an earnest
friend of “the humble peanut.” It says:
“ We have a 6trong belief, nay, we may say
confidence, that no' crop would pay better in
Florida, and we think self-interest will
prompt many of our planters to give the
peanut a trial, and enable our merchants to
convert them into the porcelains of China,
the workmanship of Japan, the viands or
France, the spices of the Islands and the
silks of the Persians.”
A Diamond Earring Snatched from
a Woman’s Ear in Fifth Avenue.—
A report of a daring daylight robbery
was made to Inspector Thorne at police
headquarters Friday evening, and that
official, in making it public, declined to
g : vc the naino of the victim, on the plea
that the detectives would be embarrassed
iu handling the case if it was published,
ife hinted that she was a wealthy
woman, and said that while she was
wa'kin"- in Fifth avenue, near forty-
third street, in the afternoon, v ith a
companion, a mau stole behind her and
seized her diamond earrings. He at
tempted to pull them from her ears but
succeeded in getting only one of them
the wire of which bent and allowed it to
come’out without lacerating the ear.
The other ring held, despite a vigorous
pull, and the thief lctt U. The woman
half fainted from pain and feat, and h r
companion assisted her to a seat on the
nearest stoop before she raised an atom.
Several men started in pursuit of the
thief, but he escaped. The earring con
tained a solitaire diamond worth $4U0.
The case was intrusted to Detective
Thompson.—N. Y. Sun.
Zach Chandler jubilantly announces
to his amiable son-in-law that all is solid
out in the Wolverine State. 1 have
counted my men,” telegraphs Zach, and
they are all here." The Grant Senatorial
triumvirate is now practically complete.
With Logan, Chandler and Carpenter
as exponents of the beauties of two
terms and tile necessity tor a third, no-
thing more can reasonably be required
by the managers. — Wathinfjton rout.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Colored People of South Caro
lina and Windom's Migra
tion Scheme.
OPPOSITION IN THE HOUSE TO
THE LEGISLATIVE APPRO
PRIATION BILL.
EVACUATION OF TURKISH TER-
KITOIt V B( TIIK RUSSIANS.
Foreign and SomeHtlc Note..
CNGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 18.—In the Sen
ate, Mr. Windom presented a resolution of
the colored Western Emigration Society,
of Charleston, S. C., favoring the passage
of his resolution in regard to the migration
of the colored people. It was laid on the
table.
Mr. Hoar called up the resolution to pay
Joseph Segar five thousand dollars in full
for compensation for his expenses in
prosecuting his claim to a seat in the Senate
as Senator, from the State of Virginia, iu
1863. It was agreed to by a vote of yeas 34,
nays 26.
The Senate resumed the discussion of the
bill to amend the revenue laws, the pending
question being on the amendment to
tax tea 10 cents per pound and
coffee 2)cents per pound. A di
vision of tne question was ordered, and a
vote was first taken on taxiDg tea 10 cents
per pouud. It was rejected by a vote of,
yeas 4, nays 57. The amendment to tax
coffee 2)g cents per pound was rejected
without a division. The amendment in
creasing the tax on tobacco from
16 to 20 cents per pound was re
jected by a vote of, yeas 21, nays 42.
An amendment to exempt from certain pro
visions of the existing law small distilleries,
whose daily capacity does not exceed thirfy
gallons, was agreed to. The amendment al
lowing a drawback on all manufactured to
bacco upon which the tax of twenty-four
cents per pound has been paid by suitable
revenue stamps equal in amount to the dif
ference between the value of such 6tamps
at twentj-four cents per pound aud the
value of such 6tatnps at any reduced rate
fixed by an act of Congress, was rejected.
The Senate agreed to tho amendment that
the act take effect the first of May instead of
the first of April, as proposed by the com
mittee. After other amendments the bill
was passed. The postal appropriation bill
comes up as unfinished business to-morrow.
Resolutions in respect to the memory of the
late Representatives Schleicher and Quinn
were adopted and the Senate then adjourned.
The House refused to consider the reports
from the Committee on Ways and Means, or
to proceed with the legislative appropria
tion bill,and is now in committee of the whole
for the consideration of the census bill.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the census bill. The first amend
ment transferring the power of appointing
supervisors from the Secretary of the
Interior to the Governors of the several
States, with an amendment so as to provide
that if any Governor shall fail to make
the nominations of supervisors before
the 1st of April, 1880, the Secre
tary of the Interior shall make
such appointments, was agreed to. With
out further action the House took a recess.
To-night’s session is for the discussion of
the legislative, executive and judicial ap
propriation bill.
ZACH. CHANDLER ELECTED U. S. SENATOR.
Detroit, February IS.—The election of
United States Senator, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Christiancy.
took place at Lansing to-day, the two
houses of the Legislature voting separately,
resulting in the election of Hon. Zachariah
Chandler. The vote was as follows: Z.
Chandler (Republican), 88: O. M. Barnes
(Democrat) 22; Henry Chamberlin (Green
backer), 18.
FIRE IN NEWBERRY, S. C.
Columbia, February 18.—A fire last
night in Newberry, S. C., destroyed one en
tire block of business houses, and five other
blocks are badly damaged. The loss is es
timated at $60,000, partly covered by insur
ance.
CONTINUED.
ew Orleans, February 18.—The Tensas
parish cases have been continued until
Wednesday on application of counsel for
the defense.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
"Weather—News Item*—Polltleal Gos
sip—If allroad Items—Yliuor Topics
—Death of Nrn. Jlcade— The Grant
movement—Is It a Blind •—Sher
man’s Letter and Visit Suspected,
THE RUSSIANS EVACUATE TURKISH TERRI
TORY.
Constantinople, February IS.—Measures
are being taken to occupy the territory
evacuated by the Russians. Orders have
been given for seveu battalions of Turkish
troops to advance from the Schutaldja lines
in the direction of Adrianople. A portion
of two regiments of gendarmeries, which
are to be ready by the first of March, will
likewise be sent into that province. The
gendarmerie will be under English and
French officers. The Russian army train
was to begin moving from Adrianople to
wards Bourgas to-day, February 18.
TO RESUME BUSINESS — RUN OVER BY A
FREIGHT TRAIN.
Oswego, N. Y., February 18.—The City
Savings Bank having complied with the re
quirements of the bank department, will
resume busiuess ou Thursday.
Thomas G. Brown, a hardware merchant
in Mexico, while crossing the Oswego aud
Rome Railroad track in a cutter, near Saud
Hill,was run overby a freight train. His inju
ries were such that he died soon after.
SHIP ASHORE.
Long Branch, N. J., February 18.—The
6hip Hannah, o f Christiania, Norway, from
London, January 12, in ballast, for New
York, came ashore, opposite the East End
Hotel, at five o’clock this morning. The
Captaiu and crew were saved. The vessel
lies high and dry ou the sand in an upright
position.
LOSS OF STOCK AT SEA.
London, February IS.—The steamship
Sorrento, which arrived at Hull from New
York, lost eighty-one head of cattle aud
one hundred and sixty-three head of sheep
on the passage.
STRIKE ENDED.
London, February 18.—The strike of the
iron and steel founders at Sheffield has ter
minated, the men accepting the reduction
in their wages.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
CONFLAGRATION IN NEWBERRY,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Cabinet on the Chinese Immigra
tion Bill and the Cattle
I* la
;ue.
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY TAKEN BY
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
miscellaneous Intelligence.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Opficr of thb Chief Signal observer,
Washington, D. C., February IS.—Indica
tions for Wednesday :
lu the South Atlantic States, light rains
on the coast and partly cloudy weather in
the interior, winds mostly from northeast to
northwest, rising barometer, and slight
change in temperature.
In the Middle States,partly cloudy woather
with areas of light snow, northerly to east
erly winds, rising followed by falling ba
rometer and slight changes in temperature.
In Tennessee and Ohio the valley, north
erly winds, shifting to east and south, partly
cloudy weather, and during Wednesday, ris
ing temperature aud falling barometer.
In the Western Gulf States, winds shift
ing to easterly aud southerly, rising tem
perature, falling barometer, and partly
cloudy weather.
Iu the Eastern Gulf States, light northerly
winds, becoming variable, with partly
cloudy weather, a slight rise, followed by
falling barometer, and during Wednesday
6lowly rising temperature.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Selma, Ala., February 18.—The noith-
bound passenger train on the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad went through a rotten
bridge, thirteen miles from Selma, at six
o’clock this morning. The entire traiu, ex
cept the engine, was wrecked. One white
man and two negroes were killed, and two
whites fatally wounded. M. Stanton, Gen
eral Superintendent of the road, was on the
train, and is believed to be fatally hurt. Tea
or twelve were slightly aud severely hurt.
Later.—It is reported that Geo. Evans,
white, and four negroes were killed, and
that Superintendent Stanton and Conductor
White were fatally injured.
THE CABINET DISCUSSING CHINESE IMMIGRA
TION AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
Washington, February IS.—The Cabinet
to day discussed the bill for restricting
CUiuese immigration, but there was no in
dication as to “whether the President would
oign or veto the measure.
The cattle plague was also given atten
tion and it was deemed advisable to request
Congress to enact laws forbidding the ship
ment of diseased cattle from American
ports, and thus prevent discrimination by
England or other countries against our cattle
export trade.
TESTIMONY OF THOS. C. DUNN.
Washington, February IS.—Thomas C.
Dunu, who was one of the South Carolina
returning board, has been before the Potter
Committee to-day aud yesterday. His gen
eral statements are to the effect that he
never made any negotiations with Hardy
Solomon for the sale of the vote of the re
turning board. He affirmed that the matter
was earnestly pressed upon him, but while
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Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Atlanta, February 17.—Our pleasant
weather has suddenly departed, and to-day
we are having a cold rain.
Theatrical and opera troupes are begin
ning to find dull times, and most of them
play to empty houses.
Some one has been “billing the town” in
the interest of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad, whose handsome posters are to be
seen in every part of the city.
It helps to stir up Florida travel, I think,
for Savannah to “blow her own horn” once
and a while, and draws people to the “For
est City.” I shall try this route myself as
soon as I get back from visiting the Swiss
colony at Mount Airy.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
It begins to be hinted around here that
Gen. Sherman’s visit and letter were In the
interest of Brother John Sherman for Presi
dent.
Editors need not waste their time advo
cating ex-Governor J. E. Browu for any
high office. First, his health will not allow
him to accept any such position. Secondly,
his great business enterprises cannot be
sacrificed to political honors.
RAILROAD PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. Sam Webb, one of Savannah’s enter
prising boys, has opened a fine “general
railroad ticket office” in this city, and is
doing a good business.
Mr. Eugene Kelly, of New York, with
President Sibley and other directors of the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railroad,
are in the city, having just completed an
official inspection of the liue. They are
highly gratified with Captain G. J. Fore-
acre’s able management of their property.
Dave Appier’s showy sign of the “Savan
nah Line,” which I noticed in my last letter,
has created a still greater sensation, he
having added, over the top, a most beautiful
locomotive, every part of which is accurately
and artistically executed. The engine is
named “W. M. Wadley,” and the tender
inscribed “Central Railroad.” There is no
thing handsomer in the State.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Atlanta friends of Gen. R. H. Ander
son thought they recognized him, disguised
as Count Orloff, in “Diplomacy,” but soon
discovered their mistake. It was the other
Antipholus.
Speaking of “ Diplomacy, ” this play
would be much improved in the closing
scene if Count Orloff was introduced and
the theft of his photograph more fully ex
plained by the Countess who stole it.
Sheep raisers in South Georgia will be
glad to know that the Secretary of War au
thorizes the purchase of mutton, as well as
beef, for army use, when it can be bought
at the same price as the latter. This new
arrangement will increase the demand for
mutton.
Mrs. Clara Forsythe Meade, died on the
5th, and was buried from St. Peter’s Roman
Catholic Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the
remains beiDg taken to Philadelphia, for
interment beside her late husband, Captaiu
K. W. Meade, U. S. N. The deceased was
a daughter of the late Judge Henry Meigs,
of New York, and mother of Commander
R. W. Meade, U. S. N., at whose house she
died, aged sixty-eight years. She was
lady of high birth aud rare culture, and her
death will be mourned by relatives aud
friends in Georgia.
It seems as though the great West, Ed
wards *!c Co. failure in Atlauta, some years
ago, keeps popping up before the public.
Owing to frauds perpetrated several of
the partners were arrested, but In time
escaped punishment. Mr. Ben W. Briscoe
however, a junior partner, is continually
getting into trouble, owing to his fast liv
ing. After his release, from jail in New
York, about two years ago, he came back
to Atlanta, was arrested a few months
later for “raising” the amount of a check,
but his friends fixed the matter up, and he
left. The New York papers, of a few days
ago, announce his arrest for robbing his
room mate, Ex-Governor (?) Wra. II. Betts,
also a sporting character. Briscoe is well
known iu Savannah and Jacksonville as a
fast young man of good family connec
tions.
THE GRANT MOVEMENT.
I have recently had a conversation with a
very distinguished officer of the army, one
whose relations to General Grant in
the past have been of a most inti
mate character (and who is now
in continued correspondence with the ab
sent ex-President), touching the next cam
paign.
“Gen. Grant,” he remarked, “has never
written a word about the Presidency in any
of his letters to me, and I know nothing of
his purpose to be a candidate for a third
term. Of course he must have something
to do when he comes home—some employ
ment—as he has not the means with which
to live in idleness. The country owes him
too much of a debt of gratitude not to make
6ome provision for him.”
It is not necessary to strain a point, as the
saying is, to 6ee in this remark the trick
which ambitious men are contriving for the
purpose of getting Grant out of the way.
Create 6otne high life-office, with a princely
salary, and put him in it, and the way will
be clear for Sherman, Blaine & Co. to seek
the Presidential nomination Jn 1880. The
louder the cry for Grant now, and the more
imposing the movement in his favor is made
to appear, the greater the chance for fright
ening Democratic Senators and Representa
tives into voting Grant the desired life-office,
with a high sounding title and a big salary.
^Heretofore I have thought the Grant move
ment sincere, but I now confess that my
faith is shakeD, and I think I see a long
tailed cat in the Republican meal tub.
Chatham.
he did not wish to vaunt his virtue, he de-
Tite Basiiful Bridegroom. — The
wedding guests were gathered all, the
minister was in the parlor, the marriage
feast was piping hot, and the bride was
peeping out of her window and blush
ing the while, but the bridegroom was
missing. They waited two hours and
then dispatched a brother of the bride
to find the bridegroom; and meanwhile,
lest the victuals should spoil, they all sat
down to diuner. Now, the bridegroom
was the most bashful man in Goshen
township, and possibly ia Ohio. He
was discovered in his room with his
everyday clothes on and with one side of
his face shaved. When asked why he
had remained away, he replied that he
had attempted to shave himself but was
so scared and nervous that he could not
accomplish it. lie finally told the brother
that if he would fiaish shaving him, and
help to trim him up, he would go and
report for duty. The brother
kindly assisted, aud the two then
smarted for the home of his anxious bride.
When within a short distance of the
house, the voungnjafi s heart aarain failed
him. He declared that he could not face
the crowd, and reluctantly retraced his
iteps. The brother went home and re
ported the result of his investigation,
and the preacher, turning to the^ lady,
said, “I’ll never tie you to such a man.”
On the following Saturday the father of
the young lady was met with the same
plea, ‘ I can’t stand to face such a t-rowd,
but if you will get a ’ squire, and let us
get married after night, I will try it
again.” The old gentleman declared
that the ceremony must be performed in
the daytime. Finally, the bashful young
man was led into the parlor by the arm,
cooped up in a corner, and brought face
to face with minister and maiden.
A Fitchburg (Mass.) lady, who does
not believe iu spiritualism, is an unwill
ing medium, and sees what is going on
among her neighbors, although she may
be visiting miles away. In a trance she
recently discovered a scandalous social
cfared he could not be bought by even tie case- This is on the authority of the
munificent offers made to him. I Boston Globe,
Early Spring Fabric*— Noveltle* in
Cotton Goodft-< ambric* l^rivall
ed in Luxury of Color and Becom*
ingneas— Spring Suit*— Style* that
Are to Be—€>irdle Boquets-.llorn-
ing Apron*—The Coif Cap.
Special Correspondence of News the Morning.
New York, February 15.—As the winter
season hurries to a close, the leading fashion
marts are beginning to put on quite a spring
like appearance. The counters, shelves and
large show windows are filled with attractive
novelties, in clean, cool, dainty summer
fabrics, and light, 6oft wool stuffs, superb in
texture and exquisite in tone. In the new
importations of spring goods, we are glad
to note a conspicuous absence of the bou-
rette effects, which every one is beginning
to get weary of, and to long for a return to
plain fabrics.
Holding the first place are the solid self-
colored camel’s hair, of softest imaginable
quality, finished with a wooly surface with
out lustre, and many showing long hairs.
These come in soft French grays, silver
grays, beige brown, ecru and black. These
suitings are selected for distingue street cos
tumes, entire suits being made of them
modeled after the simplest designs and trim
raed with rich embroidered galloons aud
handsome buttons. Cachemire de
I’lnde, which has almost been
lost sight of in the bewilderment of color
seen in the bourettes and damassees with
which we have been overwhelmed, is again
largely imported in all the leading costumes
shades embracing the large family of grays
—Swedish gray, bulfinch gray, a very dark
shade, the soft pretty mouse color and blu
ish gray,which is the most popular of all the
gray shades. Also mastic, putty, moss,™
ecru, browu and navy blue. Pongees, de
bege, and the heavy twilled serges are re
peated again and shown in all the service
able colors suitable for traveling dresses,
and costumes for real use, for which they
are admirably adapted, as they do not easily
soil or crumple. The familiar face of the
shepherd’s plaids, in brown aud black, is
seen again, and is always stylish combined
with silk matching in color. Narrow stripes
in two tones of a color, odd armure
figures and small floriated designs are
shown with plain, smoothly woven fabrics
to accompany them, and the combination of
two or more materials in a single dress will
evidently be continued. There are many
superb novelties for overdresses and parts of
costumes in light ladies’ cloths in the popu
lar grays, with a suspicion of rose, blue or
lilac iu tint, the merest suggestion of color
to give richness and effect, in irregular
raised stripes, outlined by a tine silver
thread, which are combined with plain
silks and pekinee, and designed for carriage
or visiting toilettes.
Inexpensive woolen goods for the millions
come in mixtures, in tiny thread stripes, in
checks and zigzag designs in two shades,
such as putty with bronze, or else in con
trast, as gray with blue, and really mak
very jaunty suits, especially when combined
witn plain material for the underdress.
New and strange fabrics and delicious
colors in cotton good3 for sensible summer
toilettes outrival anything presented in
former seasons. The mummy cloth is the
most decided novelty, which has a rough
printed surface, and affects fade colors,
which are the acme of fashion at the pre
sent moment. The basis or ground of the
mummy cloth is of cream, ecru, pale blue,
French gray, dark blue, aud black for the
display of small faded flowers, or else in
stripes of pale blue and olive, one of whieh
is covered with sprays of flowers. Others have
cream and moss stripes, with clumps of dull
blossoms, or else high-toned colors on dark
grounds. Th^se goods are exceedingly
lovely, and will make up with charming
effect, draping as gracefully as a foulard
silk, for which they might easily be mis
taken. Entire dresses may be made of
the fabric, but prettier and more
stylish are the gay Pompadour over
dresses composed of it, with striped
vest aud plain colored skirt matching in
shade. Next in popular favor are the sat-
teens, which are finely twilled, yet soft and
pliable, with all the lu3tre aud gloss of satin.
8ave in finish they are very much like the
mummy cloth, following it closely in de
signs, colors and general effect. Another
novelty in cotton goods is printed armures;
tne light ground has raised threads in the
smallest imaginable figures, strewn with
pale tinted flowers and foliage. Indeed
there seems no end to the new and attrac
tive array of wash goods, but we must leave
them for the present with a word in praise
of the clean, cool looking percales aud cam
brics with their white, pale blue and faint
pink grounds scattered over with delicate
sprays or small bunches of flowers; or
again, covered with broken bars, spiders
webs, drops of water, and polka dots
in deep claret, red, blue, etc. Many
of these cambrics have borders in dark
grounds with flowers massed close together,
or in arabesques of Oriental colors; but
newest is the border of five or six lines in
red, blue aud yellow, which makes a most
exquisite liuish for frills, jacket aud drapery.
These lovely wash dresses are mostly
simply made; though nothing can rival
them in luxury of color and becoming
ness, still they are designed for comfort
and real service, for morning and country
wear, and are almost uniformly made short.
They are jaunty and coquettish in the ex
treme, and like more costly toilettes admit
of many variations. The floriated and
striped designs can all be matched in plain
colors, aud in a single dress the petticoat
may be of a solid color, the overdress and
jacket of the figured pattern, while
the vest and trimmiugs are of a striped ma
terial. The pleated or plain blouse basque
either with or without a yoke promises to
be popular for these ligtu summer dresses;
held at the waist with a belt. and orna
mental buckle. The substantial Russian
lace, and also the Russian braid lace will
be largely employed in trimming wash
dresses. The more delicately textured
Briton lace will be lavishly used in orna
menting muslin, jaconet and batiste
toilettes. And where is this lace not em
ployed? It trims bonnets, fichus, jabots,
sacks, coiffures, bow3 and a multiplicity of
small luxuries, wardrobe elegancies, which
so enhance the beauty of a toilette. Apropos
of fine lace, we may add that it holds the
very first rank as a fashionable garniture,
especially white, which is used on every
thing, and in all colors, both dark and light,
for flounces, berthas, draperies, etc., and
nothing can be more elegant aud effective.
As yet there has not much appeared in the
way of suits that look spring-like. Every
thing in this liue is being held back for the
grand openings which occur next month;
still we have received hints from
those high in authority and are en
abled to give some of the principal
features of the styles that are to be.
The profound attachment for theprincesse
overdress still retains it as one of the favor
ite models, with variations in decorations
and drapery. A fashionable arrangement is
to turn the two front breadths back aud
fasten them qu the hips or at the back of
the waist, thus disclosing the underdress,
which is usually of a different cclor, and
must be handsomely trimmed; ortho tablier
of the overdress is looped very full and
short in front, culminating In a very bunchy
arrangement at the sides, detracting mate
rially from the slender proportions of the
figure, and will charm the lady of fashion
who has been waiting for the ap
pearance of this prophesied aud
longed for variation. 4 Q other style is to
have the front of the dress cut in one piece
from the throat to the foot, with the sides
and back trimmed with revere, poufs and
sashes. The new models show an Increase
of fullness, the draperies are more elabo
rate, and the looping is placed higher on the
figure than in the gai meats of the present
day. Sash draperies are expanded, and
made the most of, instead of being ar
ranged in flat folds. Waists are a good deal
trimmed, with alj sorts of fanciful shaped
collars, revere, shirriugs and folds, with
square necks, simulated aud real. Sleeves
are varied by puffs at the elbow, and at the
top, or cuff-shaped caps, and for summer
dresses we notice a decided inclination for
the flowing sleeve of years ago ; even the
very full drapery or dolman sleeve is
shown, which must be acknowl
edged is most graceful, but
needs a fair, plump arm to
set it off. In one of the new designs the
dress is shortened for the street and length
ened for the house, by means of buttons and
loops on the outside of the dress skirt, which
are not In the least objectionable. For walk
ing dresses the kilt skirt retains its place in
public favor; the overdress is drawn up
quite short in front, and the tailor-cut coat
and vest are ornamented with handsome
buttons. Another pretty model is the di
agonal basque, with the overskirt buttoned
at the side, continuing the line of buttons
on the basque. Short dresses promise to be
the rage during the coming season for the
Street, for receptions, for dancing; in fact
their ambitious design is to invade all de
grees of the toilette. Abroad they are being
adopted with enthusiasm, and it is expected
they will meet with the same success
here. We are glad to note that they are
very much growing in popularity; they
are really the only fit and sensible dress for
the street, and after one has experienced
the freedom and comfort of the walking
dress, she wonders how she ever had the
patience and strength to carry a cumber
some train through the streets* suspended
by a Iood to the finger. Combination
dresses will lose none of their popularity
during the coming season; indeed, it is a
fashion so deeply seated, so stylish and
effective, and, at the same time, so economi
cal (as several half worn dresses may be
united in one handsome costume) that the
style seems destined to be permanent at
least for the present.
Girdle bouquets are much worn. Though
natural flowers are preferred, artificial ones
are substituted, and are selected in seasona
ble flowers. Stuck in the left side of the
belt, they .are a very attractive bit of color.
Broad belts of black satin elaborately paint
ed by hand are considered elegant with
black dresses. Also, belts in fancy satin
ribbons fastened iu front with a large*square
bow, or with loops and ends at the side, are
among the caprices of the toilette.
Exquisite little apron3 are very fashion
able for mornings, in fine organdie or mull
muslin, plentifully garnitured with Valen
ciennes, or the favorite Breton lace. These
are edged with a deep pleated frill, trimmed
with lace, with a jaunty muslin pocket on
one side, edged with lace, aud a little bib at
the waist, almost lost amidst the lace trim
mings, and long wide muslin ties, edged at
the ends with lace. Others are made of
delicate colored silks, muslin and lace com
bined, with coquettish little bows on the
pockets. They are pretty and effec
tive in the extreme, and add a
brightness and freshness to the
whole toilette. A charming novelty
is the coif cap ; it is made of rich stuffs to
match the trimmings or material of the
dress, and is intended for evening and full
dress toilette. They are made on a little
lace foundation, and may be pointed in the
Marie Stuart shape, or in the turban style.
In fact, they are so gracefully put together
they look like a soft silk handkerchief
twisted into a turban. They may be edged
with a heavy cord or row of pearls, but
manv are without ornament at all. They
set on the head like a crown, and make a
pretty woman just captivating ; for after all
we must acknowledge that we owe much of
our good looks to just such charming little
devices as the above, whieh heightens our
good points, aud soften and tone down our
bad ones. Lady Bug.
Enfranchised or Disfranchised.
New York Herald.
Among the curiosities of the political
discussions of to day, when there are
really no great problems which pressing-
ly demand solution, that being conducted
ia the North American Rcriew by promi
nent leaders of the two great national
parties attracts the greatest interest. It
is based on two propositions which have
direct relation to the political status of
the negro. “Ought the negro to be dis
franchised?” “Ought he to have been
enfranchised?”
The champions in this strange contest
are Messrs. Blaine and Montgomery
Blair, Lamar, {Stephens, Wendell Phil
lips, Hendricks, Governor Hampton and
General Garfield. It was to be expected
that Messrs. Blair and Phillips would
represent the extremists in the contest,
if such it can be termed, but the public
were not prepared for such a unanimity
of sentiment as has been displayed by
the others in rendering a negative to the
first proposition and an affirmative to the
second. But the reasons advanced by
these gentlemen for such conclusions
are widely different. Mr. Blaine con
tends the negro should not be disfran
chised because his right to vote is the
only protection he has against the
schemes of his late master, who natu
rally seeks to recover the control of the
colored man lost by the acts of emanci
pation aud enfranchisement. He con
tends that if the negro is deprived of
his right to vote he will sink back into
a condition of moral irresponsibility and
practical slavery, from which the influ
ence of his political power has raised
him.
Mr. Lamar claims that the ^colored
man’s political rights must be main
tained, because they have taught him
who his true friends are—namely, the
Southern whites, and that he is being
educated out of a state of political slave
ry, which the Republican party exacted
as the price of his physical emancipa
tion, and which is as bad in every sense.
Disfranchisement, he says, is an impos
sibility now. The negro has learned
that he was a power between the Demo
crat and Republican. He is now learn
ing that he i3 a power between Demo
crat and Democrat. In other words, Mr.
Lamar exults that the scheme of negro
emancipation has resulted to the utter
confusion of its authors, and that the
South will now wield it for Southern
purposes as effectually as the carpet-ba,
gers did at one time for their party.
Gen. Garfield contends that between
slavery and full citizenship there was no
middle ground. Congress was therefore
compelled to choose between a policy
which would have made the negro the
permanent ward of the nation or to place
in his own hands the legal and political
means of self-defense.
The arguments are extremely interest
ing, coming as they do from prominent
actors in the great drama of emancipa
tion.
Killed for Insurance Money—Hun
ter’s Crime Paralleled.
Mention has been made of the drown
ing, last December, in a shallow stream
near Lebanon, Pa., of a man named Ra
her, and the subsequent arrest of several
persons on the charge of conspiring to
kill him, the object being to obtain about
six thousand dollars insurance on his
life. Ou Wednesday a hearing was had
at Lebanon, on a writ of habeas corpus,
asking the discharge of I^randt. Wise,
Hummel and Zeckraan,co-prisoners with
Drews and Stechler, the supposed princi
pals in the affair. Among the witnesses
was Peter, the son iQ-law of Drews, who
testified that Brandt had offered him two
hundred dollars to go into the conspira
cy, and that he had seen the drownin
from the garret of his father-in law’s
house. Said he: “On the evening of
December 7, 1878, myself and wife were
up in the garret of Drews’ house. About
five o’clock we looked out of the win
dow and saw Drews, Raber and Stock
ler going to the creek. I said to my
wife, ‘Now they are going to kill
Raber.’ She said.. ‘Come awav from the
window.’ but I remained. 'Phe parties
then walked on the plank that crosses
the creek, when Stechler took hold of
Iiaber’s leg and ierbed him into the
water. This is alf I saw, as the bushes
surrounding the creek hid them from
view. About half an hour after they
came to the house, when my wife and I
went down stairs. Stechler was all wet.
Drews gave him a change of clothing,
even to stockings, aud put the wet clothes
behind the stove, and said if any one
came in to hide the clothes. They said
Raber was very strong, and that they
could hardly hold him under the water. ”
Mrs. Peters testified to hearing her father
(Drews) talking of the affair in the family,
and was told if fehc said anything she
would be shot. Other testimony was
given, going to show' that Drews offered
one hundred dollars to Stechler’s brother
to do the deed, and that an attempt had
been made to bribe the (’-oroner's jury.
The prisoners were all remanded to jail
for trial at the April session.
■Losing their Cannon.—On Thurs
day evening John Shay and James
Guyon, with about fifty young friends,
procured a cannon mounted on wheels
and started for the residence of Gilbert
0. Dean, Supervisor elect of the town of
Westfield, Staten Island, to fire a salute
iu honor of Mr. Dean’s election. While
the party were marching through the
village of Pleasant Plains, the residence
of Abraham J. Wood, who was Mr.
Dean’s opponent, they were set upon by
a rival party, and a hot struggle fol
lowed. The Dean party were Ifinally
Idriven out of the village, and the other
party kept the cannon.—N. T. Sun.
An unexpected trouble has befallen the
managers of the great French lottery. It
appears that swindlers have driven a
lively trade in the sale of forged tickets,
and the publication of the numbers win
ning the great prizes has brought
claimants from all parts of the country.
There are no less than ten claimants of
the chief prize, $25,000, the actual win
ner being a workman named Aubriot,
| employed by a firm of leather merchants
* in Paris.
The New York Herald correspondent,
who writes from the capital of the prov
ince of Ceara, in Brazil, says that “the
Chinese and Indian famines will not
compare with this one when we consider
the proportion of population. Our yel
low fever dead would hardly have been
noticed in the great cemetery of Ceara.
The plague of London is the only com
parison that I know of for these pesti
lences in Brazil, but the plague was a
dwarf to this giant. What of a petty
European war that changes a boundary,
perhaps, and carries off two or three hun
dred thousand men out of one hundred
million ? What is it to a scourge which
has destroyed a province as large as
France (destroyed it, lor nothing but the
ground is left,) swept a whole population
from the earth, with death volleys of
hunger and disease and murder ?”
Some account ot the devastations of
the famine and pestilence and the causes
of the great calamity which has befallen
the people of Dom Pedro will be inter
esting to our readers. First as to the na
ture of the country. The Sertao is a
rolling plain extending from the sea
coast. It is diversified everywhere by
hills and mountains. The forest is low
and thin, unlike tropic growth. In
many places the woods have been cut
away over large tracts, and in the dry
season all vegetation withers and dies.
People obtain water by digging for it in
the dry beds of streams which overflow
in the wet season. This season sets in
in January and extends to June or July.
It sometimes happens that the winter
months remain dry like the others
terrible calamity for the poorer people,
because they depend for a living on the
produce of their little plantations, and
the crops can only be raised during the
rains. The droughts have left black
marks on the history of Northern Brazil,
The people are devoted exclusively to
agricultural and pastoral pursuits.
There are immense herds of cattle,con
siderable plantations of sugar, cotton,
etc., and the poorer people plant mandi-
oca and corn, using the land of their
richer neighbors, for whom they do a lit
tie work occasionally. Whether it be for
the pasturage of cattle, or the growth of
crops, the whole community depends on
the soil, and hence on the fertilizing rains
of winter. If the rains do not come the
people starve. Again, the population has
to suffer terribly because it has no help
in itself. Of the 2,500,000 nominal m
habitants of the Sertao, not 100,000 of
them are rich men,or even reasonab’y well
off. The vast majority are an Arab-like
race, produced by the Intermixture of the
blacks, whites and Indians—people who
have no property and never try to rise
above their normal condition. Prob
ably this is the most degraded class
in Brazil; immoral, ignorant and abomi
nably filthy, hardly washing flesh or
clothes from one year’s end to the other.
And yet, let us remember, these are
human beings, and w’e should have pity
on them as they pass through the dark
shadow of their awful calamity. This
mixed population was distributed
through the Sertao, much as the people
are in our Western communities—there
were numerous villages and hamlets
joined together by tolerable roads, hardly
any railroads, and no navigable rivers.
It is important to note this, as it explains
much of the suffering brought on by the
drought. The Sertao is a strip averaging
five hundred miles in width, extending
from the Parabyba river southward along
the coast or near it to the S. Francisco;
thence between the coast range of moun
tains it is continued southwest-
ward to Minas Geraes, almost in
the latitude of Rio. The drought
of 1877-78 wa3 felt all over this tract
but its black nucleus was iu the province
of Ceara. This province is about as
large as the Middle States. In 1876 it
contained 900,000 inhabitants, of which
at least 750,000 were non proprietors.
The province oontained only one port of
importance, its capital; this is indiffer
ently set down on the map9 as Fortaleza,
or Ceara; its normal population is 25,-
000. The streets are well laid out and in
general the little city is one of the
prettiest aud neatest in Brazil. There
is no harbor; vessels anchor iu the open
roadstead and passengers are taken to
and fro in little sailing rafts—tangadas or
catamarans.
So much for the scene of operations
and the superinducing causes. Let U3
attend to the narrative of the dread visi
tat ion. Iu Ceara the winters of 1875,
1876 aud 1877 were all remarkable foe
torrential rains. The poor people had
abundant harvests from their little clear
ings, and all went on happily enough.
They were preparing to plant again with
the rains of January. But early in the
w inter of 1878 vague reports of drought
began to circulate iu Fortaleza. It was
said that Crato, Jeo, Telha and other
villages of the interior had had
no rains; that the cattle "were dy.
ing, and even the poorer people began
to be pinched for food, even went so far
as seriously to fear a bad year. In March
it was announced that people were dviqg
« f hunger in Telha. The cqrrobponUent
pathetically writes; ‘‘All the earth cried
for rain, yet not a tear of pity came from
the clouds.” The cattle were killed, the
poor people began to devour mucuman
and forest roots. Then April blazed
forth, and brought no hope of rain.
Despair seized the people. Bands of
thieves went aboqt. Children were
abandoned die. Parents ate their
own children. Thousands who could
get aw'ay fled.
But why prolong these horrors? Pes
tilence—yellow and other pernicious fe
vers, small pox and other diseases—set
in, and the cup of misery seemed full.
Tardily came a little aid from the gov
ernment. The correspondent 9ays:
“I find that up t j September, 1877,
the sufferers iu Ceara had received gov
ernment and private aid to tl\e amount
of about $350.(XM), and probably the
richer Cearences had given away $150,-
000 to their poor neighbors. Now, I
can hardly calculate aU less than 500,000
the indigent population existing here at
that time. We reach the conclusion
that during the five months—April to
August, inclusive—each starving person
had received $1.”
In all this fearful reign of death there
perished in the province of Ceara not
less than one hundred and fifty thousand
persons from famine alone. The esti
mate of some is even twice as great.
The total depopulation of this single
province is estimated at a half million
Household Recipes.
Dessert Pudding.—One cupful of
sour buttermilk; two tablespoonfuls
of fried meat drippings, or the same of
melted butter ; one scant teaspoonful of
soda; a pinch of salt: one cup and a half
of Hour; stir together into a batter.
Have ready two or three large apples;
pare and slice them on a buttered tin and
pour the butter over them. Bake half
an hour; serve warm, with sugar and
cream or vinegar sauce.
Dog Bite.—An aged forester has pub
lished the following in a Leipzig journal:
“ I do not wish to carry to my grave my
much-proved cure for the bites of mail
dogs, but will publish the same as the
last service which I can offer to the
world: Wash the wound perfectly clean
with wine vinegar aud tepid water: then
drv it. Afterward pour into the wound
a few drops of muriatic acid, for min
eral acids destroy the poison of the dog’s
saliva.”
Marrow Dumplings.—Two eggs, two
ounces of beef marrow, some crumbs of
bread and a tablespoonful of flour. Beat
the marrow to a cream; whisk the eggs
and add them to the marrow. Well soak
the crumbs in boiling milk, beat them up
and add to the other ingredients. Stir
all well together, then form into small
dumplings. Drop them into boiling
broth and let them simmer for half au
hour. They may be served in soup or
with roast meat.
Tangles.—Six eggs beaten light, one
pound of sugar, a quarter of a pound of
butter, with as much flour as will make
the mixture thick enough to roll. Cut
into square blocks, slit, tingle, aud drop
them to fry into hot lard until they are
brown. Take out, drain and sprinkle
white sugar over them. These are very
good for lunch, with a glass of milk,
when they are cold. Kept in a stone
jar, they will retain all their freshness
and moisture.
Salt Rising.—The day before I wish
to bake, about noon, I take three heap
ing teaspoonfuls of corn meal, scald a
half gill cup of sweet milk, pour it on
the meal and set it where it will keep
and a little salt and stir up my rising and
put in the meal; keep warm. I have
had the rising come up before I could
get my dishes washed. Hope some of
the ladies will try it and so get their
bread baked before noon.
Stuffed Corned Beef.—A very nice
way of preparing corned beef and of
making a change iu this oft-repeated
dish, is to take a piece of well corned
rump or louud. nine or ten pounds;
make several deep cuts in it; till with a
stuffing of a handful of soaked bre&d,
squeezed dry, a little fat or butter, a
good pinch of cloves, allspice, pepper, a
iittle finely chopped onion and a little
marjoram or thyme; then tie it up tight
ly in a cloth and saturate it with vinegar;
boil about three hours.
Fried Cabbage.—Cut cabbage very
fine, on a slaw cutter, if possible; salt
and pepper; stir well and let stand five
minutes. Have an iron kettle smoking
hot, drop one tablespoon lard into it,
then the cabbage, stirring briskly until
quite tender; send to tabic immediately.
One-half cup sweet cream, aud three
tablespoons vinegar—the vinegar to be
added after the cream has been well
stirred, and after it is taken from the
stove, is an agreeable change. When
properly done, an invalid can eat it, and
there is no offensive odor from cooking
Salmi of Wild Duck.—First, partly
roast the duck, cut it into joints and
slices; put refuse bits of fat or skin into
saucepan with a cup of gravy; two
onions fried in butter; pepper and salt
to taste, a pinch of cloves and nutmeg
parsley, marjoram and sage chopped
fino. Boil one hour, skim when cool,
and return to the saucepan with a piece
of butter the size of a walnut; thicken
with browned flour; let it boil a few
minutes; put in the pieces of duck, after
which it must not boil, but tho sauce
pan should be placed m a dish of boiling
water. Fry bread in some of the gravy;
cut it into" squares, lay them on a hot
dish; place the pieces of duck neatly in
the centre, aud pour the gravy over all.
Dish Washing.—I am truly sorry for
those young housekeepers who hate to
wash greasy dishes. A few directions
which 1 will give, simple as they seem,
will, if followed, help to lessen the disa
greeableness of this dreaded duty. 1
would fill the dish pan half full, or nearly
so, with water as hot as you can bear the
hands in. Take enough soap to make a
slight suds; put in the dishes, having a
clean dish cloth. Wash them and turn
them into a pan, and pour hot water over
them; then turn them into another pan
to drain; take another clean dish towel
to wipe them with, and they will wipe
so quickly and easily you will be sur
prised. If you will put water into the
pots and kettles as soon as emptied, they
will be soaked so that they will wash
easily by the time you are ready for them,
A Grilled Steak.— Ingredients: One
half a pound of rump steak, lemon, pep
per and salt, butter and salad oil. Time
required, about ten minutes. Take a small
bunch of parsley, wash it, dr}* it well in
a cloth and put it on a board; chop the
parsley up very fine with a knife; take a
quarter of an ounce of butter und mix it
well with the chopped parsley; sprinkle
over it pepper and salt (according to
paste) and six drops of lemon juice; make
it all up in a small pat; take half a pound
of rump steak, half an inch in thickness;
pour about a teaspoonful of salad oil
upon a plate; dip both sides of the steak
into the oil; take a gridiron and warm it
well by the fire; place the oiled steak on
the gridiron close to the fire to cook
quickly; if the meat is at all frozen it
must be warmed gradually through be
fore putting it quite near the fire, or it
will be tough; turn the gridiron with the
steak occasionally; it will take from ten
to twelve minutes, according to the
brightness and heat of th; fire; when the
steak is sufficiently cooked, place it on a
hot dish, and be careful not to stick a
fork into the meat (or the gravy will run
out), but into the fat; take the pat of
green butter and put it on the steak,
spreading it all over with a knife.
CORSETS.
An extensive assortment of first clos
sets, including—
THE IMPROVED SPOON BUSK,
THE DOUBLE BUSK,
THETROSS BONE.
THE DOWAGER. ABDOMINAL,
THE PHENLW NURSING, and
THE 50c. LIZZIE,
The best Corset to be had at the price.
Cor-
KIR GLOVES.
ng sna
Dark shades 3-button JOUVINS, 95c., usually
$1 25 to $1 .VI
Black 3-button KIDS, good at 75c.
Dark colors 2-button, 40c. up.
SHIRTS.
We are now offering in all sizes the celebra
ted (QUAKER CITY DOLLAR SHIRT, made
of Wamsutta Shirting, and admitted to be
among the best made and best fitting Shirts
ever offered for sale.
Full lines also, of the QUAKER CITY 75c.
SHIRT.
Gentlemen's LINEN COLT,\RS iujd CLTFFS
Gentlemen s LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
hemmed and ready for use. from lcc. up.
AT A SACRIFICE!
The balance of our stock of Ladies’ DRESS
GOODS and other WINTER GOODS we are
offering at a sacrifice.
11. F.
feb6 tf
MeKENNA & CO.
GRAY & O’BRIEi
ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF
Lies' aui Misses' Ctts.
500 CL01KS!
souls, and at the beginning of the year
the terrible black*plague which kill- iis
victims iu twenty-four hours had set in.
There tyere probably three hundred thou
sand deaths in the other province*
“There is nothing in history that will
compare with it,” observes the Herald
correspondent, and we may well believe
him. There are scenes of horror de
scribed in the letter of which we cannot
even give a hint. What is here written
is itself only a hint of the mighty ca
lamity which has overtaken Ceara.
The Chinese Styi.f. ojt Discipline.—
The Chinese must go.” And if they
go in disgrace it is certain that they will
never come back. At least that i5 the
conclusion arrived at by the faculty of a
Massachusetts educational institution.
One of their pupils, a Chinaman, is be
ing educated at the cost of the Chinese
Government, and being somewhat back
ward in his studies, his case was duiy
reported to the authorities at Pekin. In
due time there arrived an imperial man
date, whieh real: ‘‘Send him home
and we will cutoff his head.”—New York
Times.
George A. Abert, of Milwaukee, for
merly a State Senator, is said to have
fallen in love with the wife of Charles
Adams. She asserts that he asked her
to desert her husband for him, and on
that ground Adams has sued for $(1,000
damages. It is not claimed by the plain
tiff that hto wife's affections were ob
tained by Abert, or that she for an in
stant entertained the proposal, yet the
damage to his peace of mind cannot be
repaired, he thinks, at a lower figure
than $0,000.
Lotta’s mother, Mrs. Crabtree, who
manages Lotta’s financial affairs, has
caused the arrest by the Sheriff of a Cali
fornian named John U. Thomas, who,
Mrs. Crabtree alleges, induced her to in
vest twenty eight thousand dollars in a
worthless gold mine. It is furlherstatcd
that Mrs. Crabtree had already lost nearly
fifty thousand dollars in investments
through the agency of a Mr. Hutchings,
and that she was led into making the
gold mine investment by the represents
tions of Mr. Hutchings, who introduced
her to Mr. Thomas, and who said that it
afforded the best opportunity to get back
the money already sunk in other ways.
All will sympathize with the little actress
and deplore the losses made by the bad
investments of her mother.
The temperance cause has suffered a
reverse in Sierra Valley, Nev. The total
abstinence society flourished during the
fall, but about holiday time rumors of
inebriety on the part of leading members
were eirculated.f^In a subsequent meet
ing it was moved that those who had
broken their vows be expelled. The mo
tion was lost. Then a resolution was
adopted, amid great enthusiasm, that all
who had passed the holidays without
getting drunk be turned out. Three
cheers were given for John Barleycorn,
and t lie meeting was adjourned "at the
President's invitation to step across the
street and drink at his expense.
BEJIED1’ FOH HARD TIMES.
Stop spending so much on fine clothes,
rich food and style. Buy good, healthy
food, cheaper and better clothing; get more
real and substantial things of life every way,
and especially stop the foolish habit of run
ning after expensive and quack doctors or
using so much of the vile humbug medicine
that does yon only harm, and makes the
proprietors rich, but put your trust in the
reatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop
litters, that cures always at a trifling cost,
and vou will see better times and good
health. Try it once. Read of it in another
column. JsnJO-JI, W&FiXwim
JgERLK^^VER^nd BASQUE CLOTHS,
* at 50 per cent. olT cost of manufacture.
BEAVER CLOAKS t7 50, $S and *10, former
price $15, 8 J and $25. These goods have got
to be sold. No reasonable offer refused.
DIRECT IMPORTATION
10,000 yards of HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES.
FRENCH NAINSOOK EDGING and INSERT
ING.
JACONET EDGINGS and FLOUNCINGS.
5,000 yards EDGING, 2c., 3c.. 5c. and 6c.
These floods are guaranteed full 50 per cent,
less than any such Roods in this or any other
city.
100 pairs 1(M. 11-4 and 12 4 BLANKETS, just
received, at a great reduction in price.
20 pieces BLACK CACHEMIRE, just received,
r5c., former price $1 15.
Our entire stock of DRESS GOODS, All
Wool, Black and Colored, reduced about 33}£c.
Our entire stock of other styles of DRESS
GOODS are marked down 25 per cent., in order
to close this season’s purchase.
Ladies’ MERINO VESTS, very nice goods, 50c.
Gents’ MERINO VESTS, 50c., 75c., $1, excep
tional value. —
Boys’ and Misses’
35c. to $1.
VESTS, full line, from
200 dozen DAMASK and HUCK TOWELS,
from $1 per dozen to $12.
The bert and largest LINEN HUCKABACK
TOWEL in this city for 25c.
5 pieces Ponson’s and Tilllard BLACK SILKS,
very heavy, and not usually offered in this
market.
GRAY &
ffarriafleg, guflflUs, &c.
SAVANNAH’S
Enterprise Carriage Works.
FETZER & SAKBERG,
PROPRIETORS.
Went Broad and Dully Street*.
H AVING had long experience In the busi
ness, and with unrivalled facilities, we are
prepared to do work in the best style and at
the shortest notice.
jan20-lm FETZER & SANBERG.
THJ3 SAVANNAH
CARRIAGE FORKS,
Old stand of McKee & Bennett,
Corner Bay and Weit Broad Streets.
A N extensive stock of Carriagee, Phaetons,
Buggiea, Wagons, Harness, Whip*, Um
brellas and material of all kinds for the build
ing and repairing of vehicles. In addition to
the above a general workshop with competent
hands to build and repair all kinds of venicles,
at prices to suit the times. All work guaran
teed, protected. A. K. WILSON,
1e2a-tf Proprietor.
Sfron ana grass #>«narrs.
McDOXOlCH &BALLMTYi\E
IRON AND BRASS
Founders and Machinists,
East Broad St., near A. & G. R. R. Depot,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
lor
Iron Fronts
Stores.
BRACKETS,
IRON RAILING,
CASTINGS
Of all kinds, and
ARCHITECTURAL
IRON WORK,
For Churches, Stores and Dwellings made to
order.
SUGAR MILLS & PANS
A SPECIALTY.
Ed. Pinaud’s Perfumery,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
AND BRILLIANTINE FOR THE HAIR.
For sale at
L. C. STRONG’S Drug Store,
feb7 tf Ccr. Bull and Perry st. lane.
i
R a _ *L
executed in the best style and lowestp rices-
at the Morning News Steam Printing Houue,
3 Whitaker street, *
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